Gloria J. Milton
Tel: 623.845.3767
Office: 05-107

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Women's Studies programs are designed to give graduates a broad theoretical framework and a set of highly-developed analytical and critical thinking skills. The career and employment opportunities for graduates are excellent, particularly considering society's growing awareness of gender and equity issues. Prospective employers welcome employees who are sensitive to gender issues and comfortable with the growing diversity in society. A degree in Women's Studies will also offer you the challenge of personal and political insight. It will encourage you to grow intellectually beyond the confines of traditional academic learning.

Women picketing the White House, 1917 [Library of Congress]

The fields of graduate study that Women's Studies majors have pursued included: Administration, advocacy, anthropology, arts, counseling, education, history, humanities, international studies, law, library science, philosophy, psychology, public health, public policy, social work, and sociology.

A recent national study by Luebke and Reilley, Women's Studies Graduations: The First Generation (1995), uncovered more than 38 distinct occupations pursued by Women's Studies graduates. Categories of careers include arts, business, education, health care, media, politics and law, social work and psychology, and sports. Below are some specific careers that majors in Women's Studies have gone on to pursue:

ARTS

• Self-employed artist
• Author published her first novel, Heartscape (Naiad Press, 1989). She attended the Women's Writing School, Cazenovia, N.Y.
• Arts Administrator

BUSINESS
Majoring in Women's Studies particularly helps professionals in these fields to learn how male/female interactions affect the business environment, gain an understanding of federal, state, and local equal opportunity legislation, and explore differences in women's and men's managerial styles.

• Small business owner
• Trade associations (domestic and international)
• Sheet metal apprentice, Columbus, Ohio
• Department store management
• Coordinator for Shield Care Network in Albany
• Employment at Motorola

EDUCATION
Majoring in Women's Studies particularly helps professionals in these fields to become aware of sexist, racist, and other biases in textbooks, learn about subconscious classroom behaviors that limit students to stereotypical roles, and explore nonsexist teaching models and curriculum integration.

• Teaching English as a Second Language with Master's Degree in ESL
• Counselor at Ulster County Mental Health; teaches courses in the Women's Studies Program and the Humanistic Education Program. She received her Master's in Professional Studies from SUNY
• Librarian
• Program advising at Mesa Community College
• Teaching English, Jackson Community College
• High school teaching
• Director of graduate education at Westchester Medical Center, N.Y. Program assistant for the New Paltz Women's Studies Program.

HEALTH

• Associate professor and certified nurse midwife at Mid-Hudson Family Health Institute, N.Y.
• Assistant director of the Community Health Center in Mass.
• Educator for Planned Parenthood in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
• Chiropractor in San Francisco
• Women's health centers
• Reproductive health counselor and education coordinator at Robbinsdale Clinic, Pa., and a counselor at Planned Parenthood. Also on the speaker's bureau of Pro-Choice Resources.
• Community health specialist for Hennepin County, dividing her time between the Pilot City Health Center's Hennepin Community Clinic for low income people in north Minneapolis and Pilot's Clinic at North High School, where she counsels students in family planning and STD testing and treatment
• Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center
• Colorado Breast Cancer Project
• Obstretrics and gynecology
• Family practice medicine

MEDIA

• Colorado Business Women's News
• Accounts Coordinator for a public relations firm
• The staff of Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press
• Works at Media Action Alliance, where she is the steering director of operation and development. Her duties include grant writing and promoting positive images of women in the media

POLITICS AND LAW
Majoring in Women's Studies particularly helps professionals in these fields to learn how women have been excluded from the political process in the past, examine how women are working to achieve political empowerment today, and explore women's public policy issues

• Managing attorney for Legal Aid Society of Mid New York, Inc.
• Office manager for an environmental conservation organization in Washington, D.C.
• Staff of Arizona Women's Town Hall
• Public affairs specialist, Illinois Planned Parenthood Council, Springfield
• Staff of Arizona State University Commission on the Status of Women
• Permanent Commission on Status of Women
• Lawyer who pushed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to broaden the definition of AIDS disease complex to include a number of infections that afflict women, thus making it possible for infected women to receive federal and state assistance for AIDS treatment
• Public interest lawyer recently featured in NY Times story on young lawyers who have dedicated themselves to the cause of social justice
• Oversees affirmative action in different divisions in N.Y. State Services, including prisons
• Staff attorney for N.Y. State Court of Appeals, Albany
• Legal aid attorney in the juvenile rights division in New York City
• Denver Police Department
• Women's advocacy groups such as NOW, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, etc.
• Foreign Service

SOCIAL WORK AND PSYCHOLOGY

• Intake coordinator of a parenting skills group for Orange County Mental Health, N.Y.
• Case manager for AIDS-related community services for two N.Y. counties
• Alcoholism counselor at a county day treatment program
• Direct care counselor at a residence facility, Kingston, N.Y.
• Social worker for the Washington, D.C. Women's Council on AIDS
• Social worker and HIV counselor at a hospital in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
• Chemical dependency specialist in methadone treatment at a N.Y. County mental health agency.
• Inpatient AIDS social worker leads a support group for HIV positive women at a Bronx Hospital. Recipient of New York City NOW's Susan B. Anthony Award for outstanding service toward women's equality in 1992
• Colorado AIDS Project
• Project director for the Hunger Action Network of the N.Y. State Department of Social Services
• Program coordinator for a Dutchess County agency that provides programs for mentally handicapped adults
• Supervisor for the Department of Employment, U.S. Dept. of Labor
• Office manager for Rehabilitation Programs, Inc., N.Y.
• Assistant director of the Teen Mothers Program, YWCA, Maine
• Program director of Family House, a residential facility for homeless teenagers in N.Y.
• Director, volunteer program for domestic-violence agency, Chicago
• Community and family development specialist, Illinois Coalition for Community Services
• Vocational counseling with Maricopa County
• Elderly services
• Battered women's shelters
• Excelsior Youth Center
• Denver Safehouse, rape assistance and awareness program
• Job developer/trainer for Arizona Women's Education and Employment (AWEE).

SPORTS

• Sports marketing
• Head women's basketball coach, Centre College, Danville, Ky
• Physical Education